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“Mistakes are a part of life. Own up to the mistake but try to move that beyond just a statement of apology,” Varma says. “If a decision is made, and you publish something and then come back to it and say, ‘this is a bad decision’ … going forward, here’s how we’re going to make these decisions a little bit differently.”

“There is something specific that’s happening in the student context,” Varma says. “Which is that ideally, student journalism would also be space to figure these things out.”

Anita Varma, assistant director for Journalism & Media Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, quoted by the Center for Journalism Ethics at University of Wisconsin - Madison